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Victim Services

The Arizona Criminal Justice Commission's (ACJC) Crime Victim Services area oversees and administers two key programs: the Crime Victim Compensation and the Crime Victim Assistance programs. The Crime Victim Assistance program provides grants to private non-profit or government agencies that deliver direct services to crime victims. The Crime Victim Compensation program is administered through ACJC but resides locally in each of Arizona's 15 county attorney's offices.

The Crime Victim Assistance program is a competitive grant established to help fund projects providing effective services to crime victims in Arizona. Grant proposals are considered from public agencies, tribal agencies, and private non-profit organizations. Grant applications must be completed and submitted through the ACJC Grant Management System. The following are important dates associated with the annual grant award process:

The victim compensation program provides financial assistance to victims of crime or others who may have experienced a financial loss as a direct result of a crime. The program covers expenses of physical harm, mental distress, and economic loss directly resulting from victimization. Eligibility to receive benefits from the program does not require the apprehension or conviction of an offender, and the compensation program is always the payer of last resort. All other sources of economic recovery must be exhausted before compensation benefits can be paid.

While ACJC is responsible for administering the program at the state level, claims are processed at the county level. Each county program has a compensation coordinator, who is responsible for investigating claims and collect supporting documentation. This begins with a completed application, police reports, and any bills or invoices that victims or claimants are requesting be paid by the program.

After the background work is completed, the county coordinator prepares for and conducts compensation board meetings. Compensation board meetings are where decisions are made on whether or not to pay out compensation funds to victims of crime. The compensation coordinator serves as a point of contact for victims, claimants, members of the community, or victim services personnel that would like more information about the victim compensation program.

For further information or specific questions relating to claim submission, please call the Crime Victim Compensation Program for the county where the crime occurred. Completed Victim Compensation applications can be mailed to the address included under the specific county:

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Available Training Series

Crime Victim Assistance Program FY 2019 Orientation Meeting

This webinar provides a comprehensive overview of the State Crime Victim Assistance Program at the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission. Information is provided in two parts: 1) the types of programs supported by Crime Victim Assistance funding, and 2) a technical overview of the FY 2019 application process. To obtain the webinar password, please contact the ACJC Crime Victim Assistance Program at vsadmin@azcjc.gov.

This course provides a basic introduction to the State of Arizona Crime Victim Compensation Program. This course is designed to give victim service providers, crime victims, or members of the general public more information on the Victim Compensation Program. Successful completion of this course satisfies the Victim Compensation training requirement for DPS-VOCA grant recipients.

The purpose of this training series is to familiarize applicants to the ACJC victim assistance grant program, with the ACJC Grant Management System or GMS. While the system is the same, the content of the victim assistance grant application is different than the standard application used by other grant programs at ACJC. Because of this, process steps, suggestions, and recommendations included in this training series apply only to the ACJC victim assistance grant application.